Word of today with thoughts

0:00Hey, good morning, Mr. Strawberry, how y'all feeling out there today? I hope everybody is doing well. Right now we're going to start the day out with the word of the day. So enjoy the word with the thought behind it. It's the word of the day podcast for March 10th. Today's word is Mayacupa spelled as two words as they would be in Latin. M-E-A-C-U-L-P-A. Mayacupa is a noun. It's used as a formal acknowledgement of personal fault or error. Here's the word used in a sentence from the age of Melbourne, Australia. His apology was the best public Mayacupa of this century. It was delivered without hesitation, qualification or blame shifting. Mayacupa means through my fault in Latin, said by itself.

1:03It's an exclamation of apology or remorse that is used to mean it was my fault or I apologize. Mayacupa is also a noun, however. A newspaper might issue a Mayacupa for printing inaccurate information or a politician might give a speech making Mayacupas for past wrong doings. Mayacupa is one of many English terms that come from the Latin culpa meaning guilt. Some other examples are culpable, meaning merit in condemnation or blame, especially as wrong or harmful, culprit, meaning one guilty of a crime or a fault, and exculpate meaning to clear from alleged fault or guilt, with your word of the day on Peter Sankolowski. Do you remember when you were a kid and your parents would drag you to your aunt's cousin's husband's 40th wedding anniversary?

2:03I don't know what it is, but you know, you go along to these things and you'd be sat with people that you didn't know. Oh, this is your second cousin wants to remove. They'd say to me and I'd be like, who? Like, I don't know them. And you'd be forced to have these conversations with people and you'd be thinking, I don't know who they are. And then by the end of the party, you'd be pretty good friends and then you'd never see each other again. I thought when I was a kid, I'm never going to make my kids go to things they don't want to go to like this. Ha, is what I'm going to say to that. My family haven't done any big gatherings for ages. We used to go away as whole families together. I think it's because a load of us had kids around the same time and life just got really busy. You know, I was thinking about it. Like, we got together last year in June when my great aunt died and there were a few of us who got together and I was like, oh, I don't really see each other loads. Maybe we should see each other more and then nothing came of it. My parents turned 72 years ago. They didn't bother having a party where we normally would have done.

3:03My mother-in-law turned 65 and we didn't do a bus pass party like we did for my uncle. I don't know, something happened. Maybe COVID put a little block on us, organizing family gatherings. And so when my husband and I put a little extended invite out to the family that in January, the middle of January of all times, we're going to be having a little get-together for Louis' 18th birthday party. 50 people from the family said they were coming. We were descended upon. So mid-January we have a family gathering because my son is 18. Then, sadly, another family member had passed. So we met again at the beginning of February. And then a week into February, I went to my cousin's 50th. And all of a sudden, I'm having these wonderful experiences with family members I've not seen in four years. And what's really nice is because they're family members, all of a sudden you just shut in because you're family members. And my kids are enjoying it and their kids are enjoying it. They're all their own people now, they're all grown up.

4:05And it really made me realise. There is a reason to celebrate. These high-point moments in our lives are designed to bring people together. And so instead of, oh, don't make a fast, don't worry about me, it's not a big deal. I am now finding excuses to get people together for anything. Like, let's have a party, we bought a new saltseller. You know, it just seems so good to get people together and it creates that moment of connection that you always need. So, the thing I'd say to my younger self, have the party, meet the people and enjoy it. I'll be back tomorrow with another episode of Everyday Positivity for you to help you think the daily inspirational quote with Trina Boyce. Today's inspiring quote is by brother Richard Hendrick, who is an Irish priest-friar of the Capuchin-Franciscans. With all of the fear and panic spreading on social media,

5:07I wanted to share a recent poem he posted on his blog that seems to be going viral. He calls the poem Lockdown. Okay, so these are his words. Yes, there is fear. Yes, there is isolation. Yes, there is panic buying. Yes, there is sickness. Yes, there is even death. But they say that in Wuhan, after so many years of noise, you can hear the birds again. They say that after just a few weeks of quiet, the sky is no longer thick with fumes, but blue and gray and clear. They say that in the streets of Assisi, people are singing to each other across the empty squares, keeping their windows open so that those who are alone may hear the sounds of family around them. They say that a hotel in the west of Ireland is offering free meals and delivery to the housebound. Today, a young woman I know is busy spreading flyers with her number through the neighborhood

6:07so that the elders may have someone to call on. Today, churches, synagogues, mosques and temples are preparing to welcome and shelter the homeless, the sick, the weary. All over the world, people are slowing down and reflecting. All over the world, people are looking at their neighbors in a new way. All over the world, people are waking up to a new reality to how big we really are, to how little control we really have, to what really matters, to love. So we pray and we remember that yes, there is fear, but there does not have to be hate. Yes, there is isolation, but there does not have to be loneliness. Yes, there is panic buying, but there does not have to be meanness. Yes, there is sickness, but there does not have to be disease of the soul. Yes, there is even death, but there can always be a rebirth of love. Wake to the choices you make as to how to live now. Today, breathe.

7:08Listen, behind the factory noises of your panic, the birds are singing again. The sky is clearing, spring is coming, and we are always encompassed by love. Open the windows of your soul, and though you may not be able to touch across the empty square, sing. Isn't that sweet? That's the end of his poem. He believes God gives us opportunities to learn the things we need to, reminders to help us remember what is most important. This is not a reactive time, it's an adaptive time. Let's use this unique time to focus on who we really are and what we are doing with our lives. We're all going through a change. We alone decide if we're going to use this time to become better. Don't panic, pivot. So today, see all of the good that's happening in the world and sing. Now be safe and make it a great day.